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- Fri Mar 03, 2023 9:15 pm
- Forum: Main CUPRA Born chat
- Topic: Intelligent Octopus and Cupra
- Replies: 86
- Views: 45776
Re: Intelligent Octopus and Cupra
That's great news, I look forward to cutting my charging costs by 2/3!
- Mon Feb 27, 2023 12:08 am
- Forum: Main CUPRA Born chat
- Topic: HV Battery Protection on or off???
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3306
Re: HV Battery Protection on or off???
It seems badly explained but here's what I understand it to say: With "Use HV Battery" off, the car will go to sleep as much as possible to save power as the capacity of the 12V battery isn't infinite, and staying connected all the time would drain power too quickly. The HV battery will re...
- Sun Feb 26, 2023 3:01 pm
- Forum: Main CUPRA Born chat
- Topic: Intelligent Octopus and Cupra
- Replies: 86
- Views: 45776
Re: Intelligent Octopus and Cupra
This is good to know as I've just switched to Intelligent Octopus too. Can you also just press "stop charge" in the e-manager section of the infotainment screen and have it all still work?
- Sat Feb 25, 2023 4:15 pm
- Forum: Main CUPRA Born chat
- Topic: Window demisting ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 585
Re: Window demisting ?
I believe that is the case, you could always turn the temperature down to 16 or so to save energy on heating
- Fri Feb 17, 2023 11:53 pm
- Forum: Main CUPRA Born chat
- Topic: Disappointing charging rate
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4736
Re: Disappointing charging rate
I charged from 20% last weekend when it was 10C at a Tesla Supercharger and the car peaked at 88kW IIRC, this was after 1.5 hours or so of driving. I also charged at a Gridserve 50kW charger more recently and pulled the maximum 50kW.
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 10:19 pm
- Forum: Main CUPRA Born chat
- Topic: Key batteries
- Replies: 4
- Views: 580
Re: Key batteries
Had mine since July using one key only, so far no issues. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it depends on how much you move around during the day with your keys. The keys are supposed to go to sleep after 5m idle or so right? So if you're moving constantly one would assume the keys use more batter...
- Fri Jan 06, 2023 9:09 pm
- Forum: Main CUPRA Born chat
- Topic: Honest opinions on commuting please
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2008
Re: Honest opinions on commuting please
I have charged my car to 80% on a cold Summer's morning and seen the rate of charge increase to 82% just sat on my drive as the sun came up to warm things through. This is a whole other discussion, as measuring the state of charge of a lithium ion battery is actually an incredibly difficult thing t...
- Fri Jan 06, 2023 8:49 pm
- Forum: Main CUPRA Born chat
- Topic: Honest opinions on commuting please
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2008
Re: Honest opinions on commuting please
Lithium Ion batteries wear more quickly at high and low states of charge. Keeping SoC between 20% and 80% most of the time will make the battery last longer. You will see the UI of the car does try discourage you from charging past 80% unless you definitely need it, and when you do, the recommendati...
- Fri Jan 06, 2023 8:34 pm
- Forum: Main CUPRA Born chat
- Topic: Honest opinions on commuting please
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2008
Re: Honest opinions on commuting please
I drive 200 miles to work at 70mph (more like 10mph on the M25 though :lol:). On the 100 mile trip there I leave at 60% and arrive anywhere between 5% and 15% depending on the weather. Generally the colder and windier the worse it is. In the recent cold snap the 100 mile journey back did take me fro...
- Thu Nov 17, 2022 10:19 pm
- Forum: Faults & Technical
- Topic: Fault in the electric drive system
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7638
Re: Fault in the electric drive system
I have this pop up about once per month in some form or another, either yellow or red fault with the electric drive system, only ever when turning the car on. Today I also had it pop up with 12V battery fault. Every single time I have turned the car off and on again and the warnings have immediately...